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India Official Calls for Better Infrastructure Funding

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Natasha Brereton-Fukui

Feb. 14, 2013 8:01 p.m. ET

MOSCOW—Industrialized and emerging nations should jointly establish a funding mechanism to support investment in infrastructure as a means of reinvigorating the global economy, a senior Indian official says.

Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram lamented a lack of proactive steps by international policy makers to pull the world economy out of its slump, and stressed the important role that investment in infrastructure could play...